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Apple
Cupertino, California
Source: Apple careers · View original posting
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At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products and experiences very quickly. Bring your passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish.
Apple's Camera & Photos Tools & AI team is a tight-knit engineering team building the internal tools that power how the Camera, Photos, and Image Quality teams measure, evaluate, and improve the imaging experience on Apple products. Our software sits at the center of some of Apple's most demanding imaging workflows: it captures and catalogs enormous volumes of images and videos, orchestrates long-running analyses that characterize camera performance, and surfaces the results to the engineers and scientists who tune the hardware and
software behind every photo our customers take.
We move quickly, care about the craft, and turn ambiguous problems into reliable, well-designed systems. You'll own backend services and data infrastructure end to end, from Python REST APIs to the model-serving infrastructure behind our AI-native tooling, partnering with engineering, science, and quality teams across Camera, Photos, and Image Quality.
As AI capabilities advance rapidly, our team is actively building AI-native tooling, from integrating multimodal and vision models into image quality workflows to designing LLM-powered interfaces that let engineers query and interpret large datasets in natural language. We want someone who doesn't just call a hosted API, but who can design, deploy, and operate the serving layer underneath it, and who holds AI-powered features to the same engineering bar as any other production code.
If you enjoy owning problems end-to-end, writing services that people rely on, and collaborating across disciplines, we'd love to talk to you.
Description
We're seeking a versatile, technically strong Backend Software Engineer to design, build, and own backend infrastructure for imaging engineering and quality workflows across Camera, Photos, and Image Quality, building and operating Python REST API services, designing data models for enormous volumes of image and metadata records, and running and scaling asynchronous compute jobs, including the serving infrastructure for our AI/ML models.
The ideal candidate has a solid grasp of distributed-systems fundamentals and is comfortable owning a service from API design through production operation, writing code with an eye toward maintainability, correctness, and long-term operability, and is equally at home designing a new service, debugging a tricky async job, standing up model-serving infrastructure, or sitting with a partner team to understand what they actually need.
You hold AI-powered features to the same engineering standards as any other production code, and you treat cross-functional communication as a core part of the job.
At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $150,400 and $277,600, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.
Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
You’ll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation.
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